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Introduction:George F. Kennan's "Training for Statesmanship" (1953) characterizes America's distribution of power as unique, stating that unlike other nations, the “United States lacks a national uniformed police establishment functioning as the vehicle of a central political will." Kennan's most compelling observation is that power within the United States thrives in every aspect of American life---from the obvious courts of law to economic bodies, regardless of whether or not that is legal. This observation of how American power is allotted is critical to understanding why the United States remains the world's only superpower after the Cold War. While other countries harbor all of their power in the government, the United States has separated its strength into every pocket of American society in order to maximize its global influence both economically and socially.

Body Paragraph X:Kennan clearly conveys that power exists in every American institution---from government units, such as police stations, to even the humblest, most seemingly innocent units of the community, like churches and elementary schools. Because America's power thrives in every branch of our society, Kennan notes that "our national life seems to be growing rather than declining." Americans---though culturally, racially, religiously, linguistically and ethnically diverse---are willing to consolidate these dispersed pockets of power in order to ensure the security of the nation as a whole. This statement of Kennan's expresses an unbelievable sense of patriotism: "We Americans place upon ourselves quite extraordinary obligations of conformity to the group in utterance and behavior." The word 'conformity' indicates that, essentially, all Americans love the United States to the degree that they are willing to help their fellow Americans despite theological, ethnic, racial, political, or economic differences. Our nation's efforts as a whole to combine forces---or to use the more Kennanian...

...Messrs. Twomax Limited, Reginald A. S. Goode and John Robert Gordon raised actions for reparation on the ground of negligent misrepresentations against Messrs.
Dickson M'Farlane and Robinson, a firm of chartered accountants.
Twomax (UK 1983) demonstrate that audit firms may be liable to third parties in certain circumstances.
It is a case also involving the decision to acquire shares, based on negligently audited financial statements.
The auditors should be able to anticipate that third party will use the audited financial statement as a guideline in decision making process. Both cases had resulted in the growing number of third parties which have a legal right to sue auditor for negligence. In other word, auditor’s liability to third parties has increased.
The defendants had all relied on the accounts in taking and calculating the price of
shares in the knitwear company.
In the case of Twomax Ltd., £56,100; in the case of Goode, £7,500; and, in the case of Gordon, £1,500.
Twomax Limited purchased 16,000 ordinary shares in Kintyre in November 1973 which shares were formerly held by a Mr Surmann, a director of Kintyre. That purchase was at £2·10 per share. In addition Twomax purchased a fresh issue of Kintyre shares, namely 15,000 at £1·50 per share.
It is pleaded for all three pursuers that in making these purchases they relied upon balance sheets and accounts prepared and audited by the defenders.
Twomax, they also plead that they relied upon advice given by...

...CASE: 1 GEORGE DAVID
George David has been CEO of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) for more than a decade. During that time he has received numerous accolades and awards for his performance as a CEO. Under his leadership UTC, a $343 billion conglomerate whose operating units include manufacturers of elevators (Otis Elevator), aerospace products (including Pratt & Whitney jet engines and Sikorsky helicopters), air conditioning systems, and fire and security systems, has seen earnings grow at 10–14 percent annually—impressive numbers for any company but particularly for a manufacturing enterprise.
According to David, a key to United Technologies’ success has been sustained improvements in productivity and product quality. The story goes back to the 1980s when David was running the international operations of Otis Elevator. There he encountered a Japanese engineer, Yuzuru Ito, who had been brought in to determine why a new elevator product was performing poorly. David was impressed with Ito’s methods for identifying quality problems and improving performance. When he was promoted to CEO, David realized that he had to lower the costs and improve the quality of UTC’s products. One of the first things he did was persuade Ito to work for him at UTC. Under David, Ito developed a program for improving product quality and productivity, known as Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE), which was subsequently rolled out across UTC. The ACE...

...﻿George Byrne
Ms. Elizabeth Devore
English 11002: College Writing 1 stretch
February 25, 2014
Food Traditions Never Change
In the autobiography, Lobster Lessons, the author Aleksandra Crapanzano tells her story of her love, John and how after a year of dating he takes her away from her comfort to a small cottage on the beach of Nantucket. Not only is she far from home but she is going to meet his permanent other women, great-aunt Margaret.
Aleksandra Crapanzano believes that the rituals of Aunt Margaret and her boiling of a lobster in sea water couldn't be real cuisine. The author then believes and can see through Aunt Margaret's stories that she is lost in taste and memories. The memory of the "fresh egg party." "Making scrambled eggs while an air-raid siren wailed, no one waiting for the eggs took shelter, not before savoring a taste when there was a time of peace." Aunt Margaret's daily diet and habits consist of eating the same foods each day, she is a creature of culinary rituals. One day John cooks a lobster and the author is hopeful that meal time will change, it doesn't. One day John's girlfriend decided to try new foods and new recipes and is daring enough to cook something new to picky, set in her food ways, Aunt Margaret. Surprisingly Aunt Margaret is pleased and ready to try more, the three begin a food journey that is filled with new tastes, experiences, and the slowly weathering away of old rituals.
The Authors...

...Afraid of having the wrong answer and standing out in class, a student will conform to the opinions of her peers to avoid being in the awkward position of appearing different or unusual. As humans we have a natural tendency to coincide with the popular opinion of a group. In “Training For Statesmanship” George F. Kennan discusses the irregular distribution of power existing in the United States. Power can dwell in the lives of thugs and criminals and also in courts of law and police establishments. However it exists in our social life and community. In America, we place the option of conformity amongst ourselves. In our daily lives we constantly feel the pressure to “give in” or conform to public opinion and shun the embarrassing feeling of being the “odd man out”. Especially in school, children and teens are constantly feeling direct pressure from their peers, to act and dress to meet their satisfaction-the only reason I typed this is because everyone in my class does. If an incoming freshman is asked by the intimidating upperclassmen to join them in the bathroom for a cigarette the scared and pressured freshmen will feel obligated to join the upperclassmen in a group effort to acquire lung cancer. Conformity evens squeezes it’s way into the clothes kids wear. When trying to gain the approval of a peer a girl might go to the mall and buy the new Hollister purse the girls in class have been raving about, hoping they’ll notice and accept her. As...

...Kennan begins outlining the Soviet’s position after WWll. When the Bolsheviks came into authority, leadership of the Soviet Union (SU) adopted aspects of Marxism into their ideology. Kennan believed that the Soviets refused to foresee Capitalism and Communism co-existing together effectively sharing power. A dictatorial power was established to begin implementing policy in coherence Marxist belief, however, the communist community in Russia had only represented a small proportion of the population, so resentment arose due to unpleasant economic consequences the regime generated. With this regime came desire for complete power. Subsequently, all institutions and organisation in Russia was controlled by the Party, leaving it as the ultimate structure of force. The SU used the “menace” of Capitalism as justification for their attempts to overthrow the world’s political forces through dictatorial power.
The SU continue to believe that the intent of Capitalist forces is antagonistic to the SU. Kennan warns the United States (US) about the Kremlin’s unreliable foreign policy, that it is re-prioritised for tactical purposes. He argues that the US-SU relationship will remain a long-term struggle due to the contemporary Soviet outlook. The ideological corruption of the Kremlin has a resulted in indisputable approval of thesis that Soviet leadership find beneficial, resulting in a highly centralised power structure. Kennan...

...Light
Amplification by
Stimulated
Emission of
Radiation
LASERS
Laser Fundamentals
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A laser is a device that generates light by a process called
STIMULATED EMISSION.
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The acronym LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation.
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The light emitted from a laser is monochromatic.
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Laser emit light that is highly directional.
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The light from a laser is said to be coherent.
Laser Operation:
Excited State
Energy
Introduction
Metastable State
Spontaneous
Energy
Emission
Stimulated
Emission of
Radiation
Ground State
Lasing Action Diagram
Necessary conditions for a lasing transition:
-population inversion
-metastable states
Absorption:
An incoming photon excites the atomic system from a
lower energy state into a higher energy state. This is
called absorption or sometimes stimulated absorption.
E2
(Absorption)
E1
Spontaneous Emission:
Once the atom or molecule goes in its excited state, there is a
probability that it will emit radiation again and return to a lower
energy state thus a photon is emitted.
In this emission process, where the atoms spontaneously goes to a
lower energy state through the emission of a photon is called
spontaneous emission. This emission process is a random one and
the emitted light goes off in all directions and thus the light is
incoherent.
E2
(spontaneous emission)
E1
Metastable States:
Normally the average lifetime for spontaneous emissions by excited atoms is
around 10-8 seconds (that is, the...